|
Home / News / Tags / textile
|
|
You rather associate bamboo with exotic furniture, but the textiles of the future could be bamboo-made. A new research carried out at the Colorado State University and presented at the 235th national meeting of the American Chemical Society shows that bamboo textiles protect against harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation... |
18 April 2008
04:46 GMT |
 |
|
They haven't yet entered the market, but the smart textiles are continuously improving, going beyond measuring body temperature and heart activity, which may seem obsolete now. New mini-biosensors integrated in the fabrics can analyze body fluids, like a drop of sweat, delivering more information on the wearer&#... |
31 March 2008
04:36 GMT |
|
|
Viking men may have been cruel warriors, but their women were really hot. Viking women wore colored-silk gowns embellished with metallic breast coverings and long trains. This type of wardrobe was found in a tomb from the 10th century discovered in the Pskov region (Russia), close to Novgorod. "Now we can say the pre... |
27 February 2008
03:06 GMT |
|
|
One day, your shirt could be a power plant as well. Intelligent nanotech fabrics could harvest energy from motion to charge power portable electronics, based on the piezoelectric effect. The new material has been developed and described in the journal "Nature" by a team led by Zhong Lin Wang, at Georgia Institute of ... |
14 February 2008
03:18 GMT |
|
|
All that is not heavy industry is called light industry, producing a wide array of manufactured goods, from porcelains to foods and beverages, or luxury items, like jewels. Some types of light industries, like textile, printing, or plastic materials require numerous workforce. Smaller companies have hundreds to less ... |
25 January 2008
08:14 GMT |
|
|
The oldest known textiles are some sail pieces, made 7,000 years ago. The first textile fibers used by humans were flax and wool, but today a large array of natural and synthetic fibers are employed. The sheep wool is made of keratin, the same protein found in the nails, horns, feathers, reptilian scales and the uppe... |
21 January 2008
06:51 GMT |
|
|
We all know that the colors impact the human mood. No wonder that along the history, people gave textiles a color by dyeing them. And the search has been always for more resistant pigments, so that the color of our clothes will not fade in time. Till the middle of the 19th century, colorants employed for dyeing the f... |
27 November 2007
09:49 GMT |
|
|
|
|
